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Mediterranean Europe is the name of the region which encompasses those countries in the South of Europe that are close to the Mediterranean Sea. They have a common climate, so they are similar in many ways: culture, food, etc.

Southern France, especially the French Riviera and the island of Corsica, is also very much a Mediterranean region. However, the Wikitravel geographical hierarchy allows us to assign only one region for France as a whole, and we use Western Europe for that, so we do not list it here.

Itineraries

Understand

All countries in Mediterranean Europe share a warm to hot, mostly coastal climate. This very sunny part of Europe doesn't have as much vegetation has the rest of Europe. The culture here is quite informal compared to life in Northern Europe.